page_title: Lur Blowers
section_title: Nyrop's 1901 mock-up
hierarchical_section_title: Lur Blowers / History / Nyrop's 1901 mock-up
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Hotel or Centralhotellet with Café Paraplyen, defunct and demolished hotel at Rådhuspladsen 16/Vesterbrogade 2A, Copenhagen (1874-1934). In 1901, a wooden column by Martin Nyrop with sculpture by Anders Bundgaard was temporarily erected in front of the hotel.
context_page_description: The Lur Blowers is a monument located next to City Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of a bronze sculpture of two lur players mounted on top of a tall terracotta column. The monument was a gift to the City of Copenhagen from the Carlsberg Foundation and New Carlsberg Foundation on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Carlsberg founder J. C. Jacobsen.
context_section_description: A monument featuring a lur blower on the new City Hall Square was first proposed by Lorenz Frølich in circa 1890. Martin Nyrop adopted the idea and originally envisioned two columns flanking the entrance to City Hall Square from Vesterbrogade, each topped by a Heimdallr figure with gjallarhorn.
  A mock-up of one column was installed in front of the Central Hotel in 1901. It consisted of a wooden column designed by Nyrop and a plaster model of the Heimdallr figure designed by Anders Bundgaard.
caption: The 1901 mock-up
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